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04 May

Posted at 11:00h in Chartership, Professional Organisations, Reflection, Uncategorized by
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On completion of my Chartership, having had such an excellent mentor (a CILIP Mentor of the Year no less!), I knew I wanted to mentor other candidates myself. I completed the CILIP mentor training, which I found really interesting (I particularly welcomed the focus on a coaching approach to mentoring rather than a focus on the CILIP Professional Registration process), and soon found myself with some willing mentees. Everyone works at a different pace, so some of my mentees are taking a longer term approach, but my first mentee submitted her portfolio last month so I thought I'd share my...

27 Apr

Posted at 17:20h in Leadership, Reflection, Uncategorized by
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NOTE: This blog post was drafted over a year ago but wasn't published. I'm currently reviewing my working preferences to help my colleagues and I understand each other better and thought I'd take the opportunity to share one of the tools we'll be looking at and show how mine has changed since I started my current job (I don't think my scores on Belbin's team roles will have changed much over the last year).  On the first day of my current job, I completed a Belbin team roles survey. It was a really useful tool and something which taught both myself and my...

31 Dec

Posted at 14:00h in Reflection, Uncategorized by
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I've stuck with my 2014 resolution of living for the moment, and have changed a number of things this year due to focusing on the present rather than the future. I'm still a reflector though, so the end of year blog post is one thing I have decided to continue. This is my seventh year of doing these annual reviews now - you can see previous ones for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. I haven't blogged much in 2014. I've been spending more of my free time focusing on other areas of my life and have learnt a lot...

21 Aug

Posted at 09:00h in Chartership, Professional Organisations, Uncategorized by
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[caption id="attachment_2690" align="alignright" width="125"]CILIP Revalidation Hints & Tips CILIP Revalidation Hints & Tips series[/caption] This post is part of a series of blog posts I'm writing about CILIP Revalidation. Last year I worked with CILIP as a Future Skills Project Worker on a part-time secondment basis helping develop CILIP's Professional Registration (Certification, Chartership, Fellowship and Revalidation). I went on to use the new process to successfully revalidate my CILIP Chartership earlier this year, and am sharing my experience through a series of blog posts. For other posts in the series, see the Revalidation Hints & Tips series. The final stage in the Revalidation process is to put together your CPD log and supporting statement, and submit it. This is all done via the CILIP VLE. If you've been recording your CPD throughout the year in the CPD log in CILIP Portfolio (see my post on Recording your CPD), and have your supporting statement written (see my post on Writing your supporting statement) this stage won't take long at all.

20 Aug

Posted at 09:00h in Chartership, Professional Organisations, Uncategorized by
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[caption id="attachment_2690" align="alignright" width="125"]CILIP Revalidation Hints & Tips CILIP Revalidation Hints & Tips series[/caption] This post is part of a series of blog posts I'm writing about CILIP Revalidation. Last year I worked with CILIP as a Future Skills Project Worker on a part-time secondment basis helping develop CILIP's Professional Registration (Certification, Chartership, Fellowship and Revalidation). I went on to use the new process to successfully revalidate my CILIP Chartership earlier this year, and am sharing my experience through a series of blog posts. For other posts in the series, see the Revalidation Hints & Tips series. There are two parts to CILIP Revalidation; your log of CPD activities, and your supporting statement. The supporting statement is your opportunity to explain and reflect on your CPD activities. You only have 250 words, so you have to be fairly concise.

19 Aug

Posted at 09:00h in Chartership, Professional Organisations, Uncategorized by
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[caption id="attachment_2690" align="alignright" width="125"]CILIP Revalidation Hints & Tips CILIP Revalidation Hints & Tips series[/caption] This post is part of a series of blog posts I'm writing about CILIP Revalidation. Last year I worked with CILIP as a Future Skills Project Worker on a part-time secondment basis helping develop CILIP's Professional Registration (Certification, Chartership, Fellowship and Revalidation). I went on to use the new process to successfully revalidate my CILIP Chartership earlier this year, and am sharing my experience through a series of blog posts. For other posts in the series, see the Revalidation Hints & Tips series. The first part of Revalidation is completing 20 hours of professional development, or CPD (Continuing Professional Development) as it's commonly referred to. The guidelines suggest that this would be on a roughly annual basis, though it may take slightly longer (or a lot less!).

18 Aug

Posted at 09:00h in Chartership, Professional Organisations, Uncategorized by
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[caption id="attachment_2690" align="aligncenter" width="575"] CILIP Revalidation Hints & Tips[/caption] Earlier this year I successfully revalidated my CILIP Chartership. Having been involved in developing the new scheme for CILIP Professional Registration (which incorporates Certification, Chartership, Fellowship, and Revalidation) during my part-time secondment at CILIP last year, I was keen to put what I had learnt into practice and test whether Revalidation was as straight forward as we'd hoped. I spent quite a bit of time examining Revalidation in other professional organisations, and it was evident that the previous version of CILIP Revalidation was much more involved than comparators. The message from member feedback (which also...

03 Jun

Posted at 08:00h in Technology by
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I was recently invited to test a product on behalf of MyTrendyPhone.co.uk. One thing I thought I would find useful was an iPad case with a keyboard. I was sent a Universal Tablet Bluetooth Keyboard and Leather Case: [caption id="attachment_2658" align="aligncenter" width="224"] Universal Bluetooth Keyboard Case[/caption] Please note: I've include my own photos throughout but they're taken in not much daylight on my phone camera, so you may be better off checking out the product photography on the product page. The reason I wanted one of these was for travelling. As a researcher and workshop facilitator, I spend quite a bit of time travelling and...

06 Jan

Posted at 10:00h in Productivity, Publications, Uncategorized by
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Last year I wrote a column for the CILIP Update magazine on the topic of Getting Things Done. The column came about as a follow on from an article I wrote on the topic in 2012. The article was very well received and so I was invited to develop a series of columns on various different aspects. These were published every other month during 2013, and are now outside the embargo period so I am able to share them via the blog. Each one has a theme, and many also include additional hints and tips, updates, and some Q&As. The main takeaway...